Kat, Incorrigible
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In Regency England, when twelve-year-old Kat discovers she has magical powers, she tries to use them to rescue her sister from marrying a man she does not love.
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Add a SummaryAnd she would have got away with it too, if it hadn’t been for those pesky sisters! Katherine Ann Stephenson (Kat) was wholly prepared to disguise herself as a boy and escape to London in order to save her eldest sister from having to marry that wretched Sir Neville, thereby keeping the family from financial ruin. Unfortunately, Kat doesn’t get five feet before her two older sisters figure out what she’s up to and put a stop to it. The year is 1803 and Kat’s mother (now long since dead) was once a witch. Thinking on her feet, Kat decides that the next best way to save Elissa is to locate her mother’s magic books and find something useful in them. This plan doesn’t entirely work either, though, since (A) Angeline got to them first and has been experimenting and (B) it turns out that Kat has a very different, very powerful kind of magic of her own that has nothing to do with witchcraft. Now the whole family has been invited to a nearby estate, and Kat has only a little time to outwit various adults, save her sisters, make everything right, and defeat the only villain who has ever made her feel truly powerless.
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Add a Quote“I was twelve years of age when I chopped off my hair, dressed in boys’ clothes, and set off to save my family from impending ruin.”
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"A book trailer for Kat, Incorrigible, a Regency-era fantasy adventure for 10- to 15-year-olds, published by Atheneum Books in April 2011. Everything's better with highwaymen!"
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There is a certain subset of romantic tween gal who has outgrown the princess genre but still longs for something similar. For them, this book fills that hard-to-define little need they may not even know they have. I think it is appealing to a certain kind of child. Some fantasy fans may find it too grounded in history to really get into it, while historical fiction fans could dislike what little magic there is. Yet for some, it’s just the right balance for the time period. Funny and strange, it’s bound to find some fans in the 9-12 range. I’ve seen books similar to it before, but nothing reads quite like this clever little debut. Good stuff.
three words: I LOVED IT!!!!!!